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2012 Dawn Asteroid Belt Protoplanets Probe Vesta & Ceres NASA Numbered Medallion
2012 Dawn Asteroid Belt Protoplanets Probe Vesta & Ceres NASA Numbered Medallion

2012 Dawn Asteroid Belt Protoplanets Probe Vesta & Ceres NASA Numbered Medallion

$ 7.89

Availability: 14 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Signed: No
  • Modified Item: No
  • Type: Medallion
  • Year: 2012
  • Condition: Excellent condition.
  • Theme: Astronauts & Space Travel

    Description

    2012 Dawn - Asteroid Belt Protoplanets probe - Vesta & Ceres - NASA Mission medallion
    .
    This
    numbered
    medallion was created to celebrate the success of
    Dawn - which, According to Wikipedia: ”was the first spacecraft to orbit two extraterrestrial bodies, the first spacecraft to visit either Vesta or Ceres, and the first to orbit a dwarf planet”. See a brief Wikipedia excerpt below. The folks at NASA were having a bit of fun with this medallion. Tatouine was a fictional planet, the home of Luke Skywalker, as featured in the movie
    Star Wars,
    which orbited 2 stars.
    The enamel and
    nickel or pewter
    medallion
    measures approx. 2.0
    " (51mm) diameter and is in excellent
    condition
    .
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    8.1.22
    About the Dawn
    space probe
    Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In the fulfillment of that mission - the ninth in NASA's Discovery Program-Dawn entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011, and completed a 14-month survey mission before leaving for Ceres in late 2012. It entered orbit around Ceres on March 6, 2015. In 2017, NASA announced that the planned nine-year mission would be extended until the probe's hydrazine fuel supply was depleted. On November 1, 2018, NASA announced that Dawn had depleted its hydrazine, and the mission was ended. The spacecraft is currently in a derelict, but stable, orbit around Ceres.